"To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting." E. E. Cummings

A Life of Wonder – George Orwell

Sure he’s the guy who wrote Animal Farm and 1984, but he’s so much more…
Have you read his essays? Start with this one.
A few of my favorite Orwell quotes:
“Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”